{"id":266440,"date":"2026-04-26T00:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266440\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T00:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:15:07","slug":"aggies-have-record-10-players-picked-in-nfl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266440\/","title":{"rendered":"Aggies have record 10 players picked in NFL draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headlined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/college\/aggies\/article\/kc-concepcion-draft-cleveland-22223518.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">first-round pick KC Concepcion<\/a>, the Aggies matched a program record with 10 picks during the seven-round draft. The\u00a0only other time A&amp;M had that many selections was in 1976, when the draft was 17 rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The 10 picks tied Alabama for the second-most in the draft, behind Ohio State\u2019s 11.<\/p>\n<p>Concepcion, the Aggies&#8217; do-it-all wide receiver, was the No. 24 overall pick. Coming off a first appearance in the College Football Playoff, the Aggies had three other players selected in the second round, including SEC Defensive Player of the Year Cashius Howell.<\/p>\n<p>A breakdown of A&amp;M\u2019s draft picks:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Headlined by first-round pick KC Concepcion, the Aggies matched a program record with 10 picks during the seven-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-266440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}